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Youth Unemployment Outline of a Psychosocial Perspective VOCATIONAL TRAINING POLICY ANALYSIS Youth unemployment Outline of a psychosocial perspective Margrit Stamm Professor of Educational Science at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, specialising in social and vocational education for young people SUMMARY Key words This analysis of education policy constitutes an attempt to outline the problem Adolescents, of youth unemployment. Building on a recognition that structural change in the access to vocational training, ‘society of labourers’ has also affected the social entity ‘young people’, it shows disadvantaged group, the problems inherent in our concept of linear transitions to working life and the self-esteem, need to learn to live with imponderables, by gradually freeing ourselves of the social inclusion, illusion of full-time employment and of waiting for things to improve. The ans- coping strategies, wer to the question of who is equipped to cope with life will ever less often be underemployment. ‘the person with a secure job’ and ever more often ‘the person who is competent to handle transitions’. So in the context of youth unemployment, what is needed is a change of direction, from a burden-oriented coping paradigm based on a de- ficit to a competence-oriented coping paradigm. However, all young people (and not only those belonging to special risk categories) need models and concepts of success for this new skill. This means that there is a socio-political task fa- cing society as a whole, as well as a need for young people affected by unem- ployment to cope with their working career. Introduction Young people today are a generation that has been cheated. They want nothing more than to be integrated into working life, but constantly expe- rience rejection and refusal. In the process, unemployment has become a reality in their working career. Many young people interpret such experi- ences as a misanthropic message: ‘Society has no use for you. You might as well not have been born.’ For years they believed parents and teachers who told them that ‘you (…) (need to) work hard and loyally, everyone according to his occupation and position, (and) man (…) (was) born to work as birds were born to fly’ (Luther, 1962, p. 21). They learned that this means European journal of vocational training – No 39 – 2006/3 – ISSN 0378-5106 European journal of vocational training 106 No 39 – 2006/3 that success at school and educational qualifications are the main sources sustaining later working careers. Now, however, as they seek a trainee- ship or a job, they are finding that the ‘society of labourers’ is displaying an increasing shortage of jobs, which affects them. It is not only young peo- ple with very limited qualifications who are now encountering such scenar- ios. Even high-level educational qualifications no longer guarantee prob- lem-free integration into the employment system (Lüde, 1998). So it is un- derstandable if young people perceive the unsuccessful quest for a trainee- ship as a ‘prior conviction’ imposed on them. Education is supposed to be profitable? What’s the point of my life then, when I work hard at school but end up being one of society’s losers anyway? To date young people have received virtually no answer to questions like this. Even in a society that socialises young people with a view to employment and ex- pects them to be willing to work, but at the same time in reality denies them work. It is obvious that a ‘late modern double-bind situation’ of this kind can only lead to fundamental insecurity. This analysis of education policy sets out to take up these problem ar- eas on the basis of the theory and empirical experience of developmen- tal psychology and socio-pedagogy. Building on an initially trivial hypoth- esis, namely that structural change in the society of labourers has includ- ed the social entity ‘young people’, against the background of considera- tions of developmental psychology and vocational education it shows the need for a change of direction for all young people, from a burden-orient- ed paradigm to a coping paradigm. Our double-bind society What is our society doing, against a background in which young people are being denied a socialisation through to adult existence that is assumed to be ongoing? And what are we doing about the fact that we have found no answers to the above questions from young people? It is true of the German-speaking regions at least that we claim, firstly, to be convinced that an imminent economic upturn will lead to a decline in unemployment and will once again guarantee full employment and training and job secu- rity. All that is required for this ‘standard’ employment relationship to take effect for all, and also and in particular for young people to be integrated into training and employment, is for sufficient State funds to be expended (Thoma, 2003). Secondly, we declare that youth unemployment is a prob- lem of deviance and that assistance to young people is a state-approved remedial exercise, and thereby assure ourselves that we are taking youth unemployment seriously, as a most urgent problem. And thirdly, we cite the results of the vast body of research, which are always the same, and which demonstrate to all of us, particularly the young, the looming ma- terial, mental, social and health-related burdens that accompany unem- ployment. Youth unemployment. Outline of a psychosocial perspective Margrit Stamm 107 Although this is not our intention, in perpetuating these patterns of ar- gument we are spreading a poison that does even more damage to every- body. The vocabulary we use alone promotes youth unemployment at the level of a paradigm based on the individual burden. It is to this that such terms refer as ‘disadvantaged young people’, ‘risk trends’, ‘the fate of in- tegration into employment’ and the ‘educationally disadvantaged’ – these terms imply that youth unemployment is to be understood as a failure for which the individual bears responsibility, a departure from the standard ca- reer history. How do young people themselves deal with such inferences? For the moment still in a very positive fashion, in that they are still trying to live according to their ‘career illusions’ (Bourdieu, 1990). Despite the dark clouds on the horizon, they ignore the structural criteria and effects of the labour market. They seek an occupation that has to be their ideal oc- cupation, which will be enjoyable, will suit them, and will promote their self- development. However, this individual perspective is by no means con- fined to young people, but is a ‘guide rail’ to which late-modern man ori- ents himself (Thomä, 2002). The truth is that in view of the acute shortage of traineeships, large num- bers of young people are denied the development hitherto marked out as the norm, and the move from student to worker cannot take place, so that the protected educational space is inevitably extended. For this very reason, insecurity and uncertainty increase dramatically, and mental reori- entation gradually becomes apparent. This may have both positive and negative effects. It is positive when reorientation leads to (hesitant) aban- donment of the concept of the ideal and to a new, more realistic, orienta- tion of vocational ambitions and hence results in stabilisation of mental wel- fare (Haeberlin et al., 2005), but it may also lead to increased competi- tive pressure and pressure to achieve. However, if the result of the reori- entation is that the hitherto optimistic view of one’s own ability to take ac- tion (‘self-effectiveness’) is replaced by resignation and retreat, the effects are not only negative, but also actively alarming. The individual then seems to be pre-programmed to flounder on the contradiction between opportu- nities for action and normative orientation. The society of labourers as a ‘discontinued model’ ‘What we are confronted with is the prospect of a society of labourers with- out labour, that is, without the only activity left to them. Surely, nothing could be worse.’ Today this observation, made by Hannah Arendt in the Prologue to her 1958 book The Human Condition, has, with only a few exceptions, become a reality for Europe. In fact we are light years away from a mod- ern society of labourers in which full employment is the norm. However, our society continues to live in accordance with the concept of a stan- European journal of vocational training 108 No 39 – 2006/3 dard career history based on paid employment, under the premise of full employment (Schmid, 2002; for critical comment, see also Beck, 2005). Despite globalisation and automation, she sees gainful employment as piv- otal and crucial to success for the individual in coping with life, and regards all other areas as less critical. Not only is work possessed of omnipotent significance, but, according to Max Weber (1988), it has also actually be- come a religion, a post-modern ‘meaning of life’. From the perspective of social and vocational education, work is important, firstly to the develop- ment of a material livelihood, and also, secondly, to the development of a personal and social identity (Galuske, 1986). If everything is subordinated to employment but there is none, and life plans are consequently put at risk, the feasibility of this concept threatens to become a fiction. This ap- plies not only to the working population, but also and in particular to young people, to their transition from school to working life and from vocational training to employment. However, both transitions are taking place in a manner that is anything but straightforward (Isengard, 2001; Meyer et al., 2003). There is a major problem here, not only because statistics show that in Europe at least one in seven young people is affected by unemployment, but also because this means that as a result this young person is complete- ly unable to take a crucial step – to acquire a working identity via integra- tion into the adult world and preparation for a working career.
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